Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...population density is 2,000 people per sq. mi. and growing at 3% a year. Ho has tried since 1954 to get the lowland Vietnamese up into the mountains behind Hanoi in the hope of developing new agricultural land, but the million who have been forcibly moved complain of ghosts and malaria. This year North Viet Nam will fall 2,500,000 tons short of its programmed rice-production level, forcing the people to eat corn, millet and manioc-hardly favorites of the Asian palate...
Meanwhile, Nauruans have little to complain about. With 95% literacy, little or no disease, no taxes, and a per capita income of $1,800 a year (v. $1,350 for Australians), Nauruans work hard at having fun. They cruise about in 800 cars and motorcycles, watch free movies, indulge in their traditional hobbies of taming frigate birds or man o' war hawks, and grow steadily lazier, happier and fatter (a 250-lb. Nauruan is considered well-rounded...
...demanded longer vacations, is forcing mourners to bury their own dead. In Australia, 100 Queensland packinghouse workers struck for three days because, they cornplained, the beef carcasses were "too hard" to bone; they forced the company to let its meat thaw longer. In West Germany, smart Hausfrauen no longer complain if a German cleaning woman fails to appear on the job; they get to work themselves and woo her back with flowers. In Tokyo, maids quit at 5:30 p.m. to attend night school, and carpenters, who now stop for two tea breaks a day instead of one, expect...
...four-play season and the program of special events succeed in at-S-14The Loeb offers the best in modern stage equipment--but actors and directors complain that its vastness is sometimes a handicap...
...time there. The nighttime emergency services, however, are commonly distrusted and characterized as too understaffed and unconcerned. Perhaps the most serious criticism is that the Health Services does not have an ambulance and sometimes appears unequipped to handle emergencies; house calls are made under only the gravest circumstances. 'Cliffies complain of the rather long walk from the quad to Holyoke Center when they are ill during the winter months. When they have called, they were merely told to take a taxi...